Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:39:00 -0800 From: Wally Hinson <whinson@aracnet.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Off-by-one bug Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980317223900.007e6210@mail.aracnet.com>
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After watching all the discussion about the new slice code for the last week or so, I decided to go ahead and see what happened to my system when I upgraded...it went fine; I grabbed the latest sources (-current as of 3-15-98), made the world, built a new kernel, and rebooted -- mount told me to update my fstab, I did so, and everything was fine when I rebooted again. However, both times, the system announced that it was changing the root device to wd0s2a, which is wrong -- FreeBSD owns the entire disk; if the new code wants to view it as sliced anyway, that's fine, but it should get the slice number right, and realize that the root device is wd0s1a, not wd0s2a. I remember seeing this off-by-one bug mentioned early on in the talk about the new code, and was a little surprised to see it still there...I know this is a minor nit to be picking, but it also seems like a fairly simple thing to fix before release, and doing so might eliminate one more potential source of confusion for people encountering the new slice code for the first time. Just my $0.02... Wally Hinson whinson@aracnet.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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